say it: strangg-yuh-LAY-shuhn
strangulation is a noun meaning "the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe". It carries 3 recorded senses.
the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe
“no evidence that the choking was done by the accused”
the condition of having respiration stopped by compression of the air passage
(pathology) constriction of a body part so as to cut off the flow of blood or other fluid
“strangulation of the intestine”
pathology
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for strangulation come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.